SteerAi
Joined to bring robust, observable infra and platform practices to autonomous systems.
Now
Senior Cloud Architect at SteerAi, Abu Dhabi, applying infra, reliability, and platform thinking to autonomous robotics-scale systems.
Current Location: UAE · Operating since 2005.
What I focus on
Recent highlights
Director of Engineering · CoLearn
Scaled teams and systems serving 4.5M students, hiring and enabling high-trust engineering squads.
Infra, cloud, and ops leadership
Two decades of building, tuning, and shipping across cloud, networks, operating systems, and databases.
Signals
"Understanding computer networks, CPU architectures, operating systems, and databases at a non-trivial skill level is a superpower."
— on the pillars that make every system work"Multi-cloud is still a word, but you probably do not need multi-cloud Kubernetes."
— advocating pragmatic cloud choices"It's a CRUD app; write better queries and fix it."
— a reminder to keep things simple and solidContact
Best way to reach me is email: mail@ashwinm.net.
Typically responds within 48 hours.